George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat...
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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
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To a professional critic theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt...
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.